Guitar Forensics with Mark and an Interesting Gibson L-00

[@MrDotneck]

Cool guitar and cool story behind it!

[@brownmonkeybananayellow]

always love your videos

[@kingcormack8004]

I love Gibson L and LG series guitars.

[@glendonjones]

This was probably done at Gibson's expense under the original lifetime warranty. I've heard it suggested that avoiding warranty work was a primary reason that their tops and bridge plates got heavier and heavier over the years. Where I work I've been fortunate to see old Gibsons with factory refins, new headstock veneers or fingerboards but never a new top. But then, maybe I have and didn't detect it. Cool video!

[@John-wr6yo]

A non original,a horse of many colors. Dealers have told me that the condition of originality was the greatest determining factor in the instruments price. We had a humming dove at one time. The neck of a dove,the body of a humming bird,with a dove pick guard. But of course gibsonians were never consistent from year to year in production.

[@davidmiller571]

I have what I think is a natural finish 1944 l00 but I have no idea because I can’t find numbers anywhere inside or anything.

[@davidmiller571]

It was my grandfather’s

[@1950s_Guitar]

Interesting, since Gibson would have had to pull the neck off to replace the top, at a time when such an operation may have still been rare. Do you think Gibson pulled the neck off as is done today for a neck set?

[@TheFolkwayMusic]

Hard to say. The guitar has been completely refinished (except for the headstock face), which makes it difficult to guess. But as the fretboard and frets were 1930’s issue, there’s a good chance the neck was removed (with the fretboard) for the retop.

[@Richard_Lush]

Is it me or are the back and sides lighter in colour than a 30s L-00? Mine have been darker. Do you think the back and sides were refins?

[@TheFolkwayMusic]

The entire body is refinished.

[@richsackett3423]

Wait wait wait! Lemme guess what it is. Is it an inter-War Gibson?

[@HarryNicNicholas]

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